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For example, two women were brought in for having circumcised their children. These, when they had led them publicly around the city with the babes hung from their breasts, they threw down headlong from the wall.
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Verse 10. Women. See 1 Maccabees 1:64. and so forth Calmet.—Besides the former massacres, (Calmet. 5) four great martyrdoms are here recorded: first, of two women, with the children; second, of others keeping the sabbath; third, of Eleazar, ninety years old; and fourthly, of the seven brethren, with their mother. Calmet. 7. Worthington.
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